posted on 2024-04-18, 17:54authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Manuscript in black ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exists in notebooks and letters. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). A shorter draft of the poem appears in 'War's Embers' (1919) with the inscription 'To the memory of Edward Thomas'.